9/15 To mother's for dinner. Lil, Harry & Susan there also. Sylvia [&] Susan amused themselves eating candy and raisins. Eugene and I played Pop some chess. Detroit housewives are crossing to Canada to shop at cheaper prices. Jack Kramer won the National singles over Frankie Parker - 4-6, 2-6, 6-1, 6-0, 6-3. Louise Brough upset Margaret Osborne to win the women's title 8-6, 4-6, 6-1.
9/16 Eugene drew "The Wise Men of Helm" by S. Simon - Jewish Folk-lore, "The Boy Who Knew What The Birds Said" by P. Colum, "Fun With Paper" by Leeming and Sylvia took "Peter and the Wolf". Sylvia's atrocious appetite may be due to her post-nasal drip which is very bad. Eugene cannot be deterred from poking and making passes at us. The first congressional probe of high prices at Providence heard the AFL, C.I.O., A.V.C.and P.C.A. call for a return of price control. 80 Slovaks were arrested in a plot to assassinate Czech president Benes. The Security Council dissolved the Greek border comm.
9/17 Sylvia burst into tears this morning when she found she had left her doll's bottle at Mom's. I bought her another after she had rejected two for size or lack of numbers. Incidentally, she doesn't want to go to the playground school. Lillian took the kids to the zoo yesterday They visited the children's zoo and had popcorn. The second session of the General Assembly opened at Flushing Meadow at 11AM yesterday with the delegates of 55 nations attending. Oswaldo Aranha of Brazil was re-elected president. His opening address stressed the possibility of war.
The picture below ("Eugene & Sylvia in September 1947") was pasted in the middle of this entry.
9/18 Beat Mencher, Sylvia saying I played lovely after the game. LaGuardia collapsed and is seriously ill. Marshall at the General Assembly made six points. He proposed a resolution censuring the Balkans for causing the crisis in Greece and establishing a border commission. He proposed a permanent standing committee (to bypass the Security Council[}]. Proposed liberalization of the veto. Claimed disarmament cannot be instituted until the intern'l situation is cleared up. He was evasive on the Palestine issue. Blamed Russia in the Korean situation. Two million agricultural and factory workers are on strike.
9/19 Eugene got a comic book and after finishing it he wanted to go back to the store and exchange it. Vishinsky answered Marshall at the UN. He singled out nine Americans who have threatened Russia with war as an example of U.S. war-mongering. He attacked the Truman and Marshall Plans as violating UN principles in that they employ aid as a political weapon. He charged American corporations made 50 billion dollars profit in the war calling it blood money. Camden shipyards settled for 12¢ per hour increase. Unionist P.J. Warhol [?] has been seized for deportation. Lillian read "Three Came Home" by A. N. Keith - Experiences in a Jap. prison camp. I read "The Old Curiosity Shop". Lillian went to Bathgate Ave. bringing home sheeting, fruits, vegetables and liver at a saving and a pair of shoes for $2. Railway Exp. struck.
9/20 After lunch, downtown where we got an alarm clock at a pawnbroker's - $1.50, material for curtains and a few knick-knacks. A UN Comm. voted to bring the veto before the Assembly for revision. Anti-labor transit head Gen'l Gross resigned blasting O'Dwyer for sabotage. Wallace attacked Truman's hysteria in swearing in Defense Sec'y Forrestal ahead of time. Assorted renegades including Budenz, Manning Johnson and Zack are appearing against Santo in his deportation proceedings. LaGuardia is dead at 64.
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